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Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Wild Bird Wednesday 242 - Tui

The Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is an endemic that is common throughout New Zealand. This species was one of the first birds I identified in the garden of our accommodation in Auckland.

The Tui is one of the largest honeyeaters, and is a little bigger than most thrushes. Because of the white throat tufts, this bird is sometimes called The Parson Bird. In dull light they can look almost black, but when they catch the sunlight, their feathers taken on a metallic sheen.

These images were all taken in the Queen Charlotte Sound area of South Island.

My main computer is off having emergency surgery this week - and my bank account is on life support, so I will have work my way around these issues for a week or so!

Very pretty photos. In other news, I was telling someone about your high altitude parrot, and they immediately knew it was a Kea. We were in a parking lot where people put plastic bags over their windshield wipers to discourage vultures.

Don't you just hate when these computers are on the get gone, or broken... Mine is such a slow poke and when I try to scroll down to see my blog friends and then get to comments alone, takes forever. Your image shares are of a stunning bird, with such beautiful feather colourations~

Sorry to hear of your computer woes, Stewart. Technology is wonderful when it works. However, there seem to be so many pressures to make things affordable these days (partly because so many people seem to think that it's their right to own everything that they wish for) that reliability is going out of the window, closely followed by the sanity of the human race.

As for your bank account being in need of intensive care - could your wanderlust be partly to blame? ;D

This is one cool looking bird ... and I love how his "black" is really "a rich royal blue". Some of our black birds do the same in the sunlight. I think we underestimate Natures artistic abilities :) Too bad the sun isn't always shining. Busy day ... sending postcards to the White House (a soft protest) have to keep the pressure on :)